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Medicare Advantage Plans

Cutting Subsidies to Insurers Are Not Benefit Cuts

Barbara B. Kennelly | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cms, Humana Letter, Medicare Advantage, Ahip, Medicare Advantage Plans, Politics News
Barbara B. Kennelly

It's time we call this decades-long dance with the insurance industry and Medicare what it is-- political extortion--not benefit cuts.

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How We Can Afford Health Care Reform

Francine Hardaway | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Medicare Advantage Plans, Recovery Audit, Medicare, Health Care Overhaul, Politics News
Francine Hardaway

There seem to be two fixes to the Medicare problem. One consists of paying private insurers differently; the other, paying providers differently. Neither involves pulling the plug on grandma.

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Ryan Grim

Medicare Advantage Sellers Trick Elderly Into Giving Up Benefits

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare Advantage, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Ahip, Medicare Advantage Plans, Politics News

Curtis Smith is retired, but his body doesn't know it yet. The 72-year-old's eyes still pop open at five a.m. every morning, just as they did for deca...

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Why Not a "Bailout" That Restructures Health Care to Benefit All?

Michele Swenson | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Crisis, Framing Issues, Comprehensive Health Care Reform, Single-Payer Health Care, Financial Crisis, Medicare for All, "Free-Market" Health Care, Health Care Crisis, Prescription Drug Reform, Medicare Advantage Plans, Wall Street Crash, Barack Obama Health Care Policy, Barack Obama Health Care, Congressional Bailout Package, Subprime Mortgages, Congressional Bailout, Business News
Michele Swenson

"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.

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